St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-15
QUEEN NATALIE,
The Intriguing Wife ofKing Milan,
of Servia.
Her Plans to Secure the Regency
Come to Grief. s}

ttIIllOIy Sut ItbuIllcU w a ICN
days ago with flying colers from her ten
weeks stay in Russia. Her husband,
as i'm duty bound, was at the railway
station to await her arrival, but it is
scarcely necessary to sry that the meet
ing of this most ill-assorted couple was
cold and ceremOniouS in the extreme,
the king contenting himself with barely
touching his wife'S gloved hand with
hiSlipS.
When last wrote you on the subject
Queen Natalie had just left Belgrade for
the Crimea after succession of Stermy
scenes at the palace. Among other
things her majeSty's jealousy had been
aroused by the kings too marked atten-
ton to Nine. Soukris, the pretty wife of
and she had publicly insulted that lady
during the Easter reception at court
by turning her royal back ON her,
and then replying aloud to the kings
whispered remonstranceS that she Ibid
not require to be told how to treat ner
husbands miStresSes." Before her de-
parture she had, moreover, brought
about the dismissal of the Garascha-
nine cabinet and the appointment of
her confidential adviser and friend, M.
RiStics, who is notorious RuSSophile,
as prime minister.
Her journey through Russia reSem
bled almost triumphal march. At
every place where she stopped she was
received with royal honors; the muni-
cipalitieS presented the traditional
bread and salt on silver salvers, and
important deputationS SOlemnly eX-
pressed their gratitude for the work she
was doing on behalf of the Pan SlaviSt
cause in Servia. On arriving at Yalta
| in the Crimea the cZar placed his lovely
summer residence there at her disposal,
and detailed number of gen.
erals, aideS-de-camp, and other
high court officials to attend
on her during her stay in Russia. One
of the imperial steam yachts was also
placed at her orders. Of course this
atmosphere of Russian incense and fiat
terry only resulted in more thoroughly
eStranging the queen from her husband
and his Austrian procliyitieS. The
Servian envoy at st. Petersburg is a
man devoted to her interests, and the
Russian government was soon engaged
i'm the consideration of scheme, Origi-
mated by her, whereby King Milan was
to be forced to abdicate in favor of his
tWeive-year-Old son, she undertaking the
regency in conjunction with her friend
Nj. RiSticS.
On becoming acquainted with the
queens intrigueS, and finding that all
his letters to her were returned to him
unopened, King Milan, who is some
what of a coward, became greatly
frightened. He knew that both his
wife and the prime minister were thor
Oughly INSCRIPTIONS, and he remem-
bered with a shudder that his uncle and
predecessor on the throne had been
murdered in broad daylight i'll the pri-
vate grounds of the royal palace at
had been kidnapped and spirited
away into Russia for having opposed the
ears policy in Bulgaria. Fearing a
coup d 'etat he determined to proceed in
person to Vienna to seek for help and
advice from his friends there. His vOy-
age was rendered all the more necessary
by the fact that the Servian treasury
was in state Of unpleasant emptiness,
and that moreover an exceedingly bad
impression had been caused in Austria,
not only by his change Of ministry, but
also by Queen Natalie'S gross diScOur
teSy to the empress queen in refusing at
the every last moment to pay the latter
long-prOmised visit at Herculesbad.
Reaching Vienna toward the latter
end of May, he was received with un-
allowed to take up his quarters as usual
in one of the hotels he was lodged in the
state apartments of the imperial palace.
During the four weeks that King Milan
remained in the Austrian capital not
day passed without his spending at
least one and often several hours in the
company of Count KalnOky, the minis
ter VINO conducts the foreign affairs
of the AuStro-Hungarian empire,
NJ. Tisza, the Hungarian
prime minister, likewise on
several occasions took the trouble of
running up from PeSth in order to have
long interviews with the king. The re-
suit thereof was soon apparent. In the
first place the negotiations at st. Peters
burg respecting the abdicatiOn of King
were suddenly dropped and nothing
more was heard of the matter.
Count KalnOky had given the st.
Petersburg foreign Office to under
stand in a very distinct manner that
no such move on the part of Russia
would be tolerated by Austria. The
latter intends her influence to remain
predominant in SerVia, which is at pres
ent the only barrier against Rusia's
march on COnstantinople. Bulgaria is
already, to all intents and purposes, in
the grasp of the Gar, who has only to
extend his hand to take undisputed pos
session, while ROumania is thoroughly
embittered against Austria by the stu
pid tariff war which has been waged
tween the two countries for the past
five years. 1t is with this object of
maintaining her hold OH Servia that
Austria has so frequently come forward
to the assistance OF the little kingdom
in its financial embarraSSmentS.
Queen Natalie, much ditguSted by the
turn things had taken, and seeing that
for the present at any rate nothing
could come of her projects concerning
the regency, made up her mind to re-
turn to Belgrade. The news coming
| like thunder-clap upon her husband i'll
the middle of his enjOymentS in Vienna.
Her return home meant a renewal of
intrigue, unpleaSantneSs of every kind.
and even humiliation for himself. Ac-
cordingly he telegraphed the most
stringent orders To his prime minister
to the effect that measures should be
taken to prevent the queens setting
her foot On Servian territory.
M. RiSticS, whose former Illicit relations
with the queen are notorious through
out Europe, wired back that he declined
to obey the kings commands in the
matter. Count KalnOky, on being ap-
peaied to, advised Milan'S immediate
return to Belgrade, and that he should
allow the queen to arrive without scan
dial and then insist OH separation and
on her leaving the kingdom. Accord
ingly about ten days ago poor, unfor-
tunate Milan arrived in his capital at
nightfall. in company with the Austrian
envoy to Servia, and was much diSgusted
to find that during his absence at vi
emma NJ. Ristics had: without his knowl-
edge, secured the recall and departure
of NJ. and especially Nine. Soukris.
Queen Natalie, since her arrival at
Belgrade, has taken up her quarters in
wing of the royal palace, completely
shut out from that occupied by her hus-
band. The last few days have been
occupied in most active negotiations, i'll